Living the Spiral

Alison Dale
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Living the Spiral with Alison Dale explores the rhythms of time, from lunar cycles to life pivots. It’s part astrology & human design, part seasonal check-in, and an invitation to move with change rather than fight it. www.livingthespiral.com

  1. Jun 4

    Emergent Magic with Britten LaRue

    In this episode of Living the Spiral: Magicians, your host Alison Dale interviews astrologer and community builder Britten LaRue. She's the creator of Emergence Astrology, author of the book Living Astrology, and host of Moon to Moon podcast. Alison and Britten chat about magic as change and the willingness to be moved by it. They discuss skill as a Saturnian devotional practice developed over time, “voice” as the sum of our choices and boundaries, and one of Britten’s guiding phrases, “there’s no such thing as potential, there’s only emergence,” as an antidote to shame and striving. The conversation contrasts astrology as a living language with predictive approaches, distinguishes divination from fortune-telling, and connects desire, unshaming, and self-trust to magical practice. Britten shares her path from academia to astrology after a mystical period of intuition and lunar guidance, and she describes restructuring her offerings, clarifying Living Emergence as a community space and Emergence Astrology Pathway as a multi-year school. About Britten LaRue Britten LaRue is a recovering academic who now teaches, writes, and offers transformational readings from a place of sacred unknowing. She is the creator of Emergence Astrology, the author of Living Astrology, and the host of the Moon to Moon podcast. Her work invites us to think of the signs and planets as a living language designed to equip us to meet what is happening with our fullest, most vibrant power. Work with Britten: Enrollment for the Emergence Astrology Pathway opens at the summer solstice. If you've been looking for a long-term home for your astrological studies that feels mystical, spacious, and genuinely transformational, it's worth exploring. You can also find her in Living Emergence, her ongoing community space for practice and belonging, and pick up her book Living Astrology in her shop. Visit brittenlarue.com to learn more, follow her on Instagram at @brittenlarue, and subscribe to Moon to Moon wherever you listen to podcasts. About Alison Dale Alison Dale is an artist, writer, astrologer, and Human Design guide based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work lives at the intersection of ancestral systems that track the seasons and the planets, embodiment practices, and earth-based spirituality. Work with Alison: Book a reading or explore more of what she offers at hearthandspiral.com, follow along at @hearthandspiral on Instagram, or on Substack at livingthespiral.com. Timestamps: 00:00 Meet Britten LaRue 05:21 Claiming the Magician 05:58 Magic as Change 08:29 Emergence and Voice 11:32 Skills Desire Guidance 15:57 Unshaming Astrology 18:13 Saturn and Skillbuilding 25:06 From Academia to Astrology 28:55 Neptune Awakening Leap 32:38 Why Community Matters 39:06 Maui Intuition Moon Call 40:15 Moon Ritual Beginnings 41:16 Learning Lunar Astrology 49:22 Deconditioning and Unshaming 50:33 Divination and Trust 58:49 Restructuring Offerings 01:03:52 Community vs Pathway 01:05:29 Imaginal Spaces Online 01:07:25 Compost and Rebrand Metaphor 01:08:17 Where to Find Britten This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    1h 10m

  2. May 24

    Gemini Season Horoscopes

    Get your Gemini Season Guidebook here!Alison of Living the Spiral shares Gemini season 2026 horoscopes by rising sign. With Uranus newly in Gemini and a Gemini New Moon on June 15, each sign is guided through the house Gemini activates and what Uranus may revolutionize over the next seven years, with key dates including the Uranus cazimi around May 22, the Sagittarius Full Moon on May 31, the Mars–Pluto square on May 25, Uranus square the nodes on June 12, Venus entering Leo on June 13, and the Venus–Jupiter conjunction in Cancer on June 9. She has a Gemini season guidebook available at hearthandspiral.com and invites listeners to work with her through astrology and human design readings, coaching, and her Tending the Hearth offering. 00:00 Welcome 02:47 Why Rising Signs Matter 03:09 Gemini Season Big Shift 03:31 Aries Rising Third House 06:00 Taurus Rising Money Values 08:26 Gemini Rising Identity Rewire 11:19 Cancer Rising Twelfth House 14:22 Leo Rising Community Shakeup 17:33 Virgo Rising Career Calling 20:21 Libra Rising Beliefs Travel 22:48 Scorpio Rising Deep Transformation 25:39 Sagittarius Rising Partnerships 28:41 Capricorn Rising Routines Health 31:15 Aquarius Rising Creativity Play 33:34 Pisces Rising Home Roots 37:01 Wrap Up Resources and Links This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    40 min

  3. May 24

    Gemini Season 2026: A New Format and a Season Full of Electricity

    Get your Gemini Season Guidebook here! In this episode, Alison shares a refresh to Living the Spiral, moving from full/new moon episodes to a monthly rhythm with three releases: a season-ahead episode (with rising sign horoscopes, key transits, and a Human Design gate walkthrough), ongoing “Magicians” interviews, and a third, more spacious big-picture episode. She also points listeners to her written Mandala 64 Walk on Substack via livingthespiral.com and mentions a new astrocartography app project in the works. She then welcomes Gemini season (May 20/21–June 20), describing its breezy, curious, pollinator energy and its links to breath, lungs, arms, and childhood. She weaves in Gemini mythology (Babylonian Great Twins; Castor and Pollux) and outlines the six Gemini Human Design gates (20, 16, 35, 45, 12, 15), plus major transits, and closes with offerings like the Gemini season guidebook and astro-human design readings at hearthandspiral.com.Work with Alison Alison is an ecosomatic astrologer, Human Design guide, and spiritual teacher based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She weaves together astrology, Human Design, the Gene Keys, the Celtic wheel of the year, and somatic practice into readings, courses, and seasonal gatherings that help people attune to the deeper rhythms they're already living inside. Her Soul Shine readings combine astrology and Human Design into a single session that looks at your chart, your body, your timing, and what's asking to move in you right now. If you want to go deeper into how the current transits and your own design are intersecting, her books are open. You can find her full offering of readings and courses at hearthandspiral.com, and follow the Living the Spiral podcast and Mandala 64 Walk here on Substack. 00:00 Welcome and Updates 01:21 New Monthly Format 02:38 Mandala 64 Walk 04:43 Magicians Interview Series 06:27 Big Picture Episodes 08:43 Summer Schedule and App 10:00 Gemini Season Begins 11:49 Gemini Body and Breath 14:17 Gemini Childhood and Air 19:23 Mercury and Ecosomatic Lens 23:39 Gemini Myth of Twins 27:30 Human Design Gates Intro 31:19 Gate 20 Presence 35:40 Gate 16 Skills 38:52 Gate 35 Change 41:56 Gate 45 Gatherer 45:04 Gate of Caution 48:21 Solstice Gate Extremes 53:28 Six Gates Recap 55:24 Uranus in Gemini Era 58:29 Uranus Cazimi Revelations 01:01:07 Mars Square Pluto 01:05:00 Sagittarius Full Moon 01:08:45 Mercury into Cancer 01:10:07 Venus Jupiter Sweet Spot 01:11:52 Uranus Squares Nodes 01:15:22 Gemini New Moon 01:17:14 Chiron Enters Taurus 01:20:51 Season Wrap and Offers This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    1h 27m
  4. Ancestral Magic with Rachel Simon Stark

    May 20

    Ancestral Magic with Rachel Simon Stark

    In this Living the Spiral: Magicians episode, host Alison Dale frames magic as making the invisible visible through attention and intention. She interviews Rachel Simon Stark, founder of Widening Circles Collaborative, about ancestral reclamation, cultural repair, and collective liberation. Rachel describes being contacted in 2018 by her grandmother Ruth during a rock-bottom period, which initiated Rachel’s ancestral work and led to her nine-week course Cultivating Culture that emphasizes grounding, guided tools, community processing, and service. Drawing on urban planning’s focus on belonging, Rilke’s “Widening Circles,” and identity as a fluid river, she discusses chosen ancestors, more-than-human ancestors, boundaries rather than walls, and meeting ancestors in their wholeness. The conversation addresses trauma, shame vs humility, colonialism and indigeneity, being future ancestors, releasing victimization into agency, and Rachel’s plan to offer the course again around October/Samhain.Thanks for tuning in! Work with Rachel:To learn more about working Rachel and the Widening Circles Collaborative, visit her website at wideningcirclescollaborative.com. Follow Rachel on Instagram and on Substack at Rachel Simon Stark, where she writes the deep and thoughtful publication hi•ne•ni : here i am. Work with Alison:Book a reading or explore more of what I offer on my website at hearthandspiral.com, follow along at @hearthandspiral on Instagram, or on Substack at livingthespiral.com. 00:00 What Magic Really Is 02:31 Meet Rachel Simon Stark 04:41 Grandmother’s Wake Up Call 07:23 From Dreams to a Course 10:46 Urban Planning Meets Soul 14:22 Why Widening Circles 18:37 Homecoming to Lineage 22:46 Inside the Nine Week Container 28:22 Future Ancestor Mindset 30:35 Identity as a River 39:22 Resistance and Hard Histories 43:09 Beyond Shame Toward Humility 49:57 Beyond the Melting Pot 51:27 Ancestral Creativity 54:37 Grandfather on the Road 58:04 Calling In Ancestors 01:00:16 Wise and Well Debate 01:06:46 Boundaries Not Walls 01:11:58 Roots Over Progress 01:23:18 Indigenous Marrow 01:27:38 What Ancestors Need 01:33:57 Course and Farewell This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    1h 36m
  5. Medusa, Chiron & the New Moon in Taurus

    May 14

    Medusa, Chiron & the New Moon in Taurus

    Hey friends, happy New Moon in Taurus. We’re 2 weeks out from that potent full moon in Scorpio… how are you all doing out there? How did that lunation show up for you? This new moon is conjunct the Medusa Star and happens on the same day that Mars meets Chiron. So while it’s not necessarily gentle, it’s still exalted in Taurus, and the gate that it’s falling in is a deep reminder of the power of our personal agency, care, and contributions. Thanks for liking, sharing, and reviewing Living the Spiral- it truly helps me to reach more people and continue writing and recording this labor of love. Living the Spiral is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. xo Alison Questions about this moon or my offerings or anything else? Write me at alison@hearthandspiral.com or DM me at @hearthandspiral on Instagram. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    1h 6m

  6. Apr 30

    The Full Moon in Scorpio and the Season of Speaking Your Truth

    The Full Moon in Scorpio and the Season of Speaking Your Truth Sign up for the Beltane Ritual next Tuesday at 5pm MST here!I'd love to invite you to my May 5 Zoom ritual “Blossoming into Beltane” (somatic work, a bit of vocalizing, creative practice, and cross-cultural Beltane teachings). In this full moon episode I riff on the Taurus–Scorpio axis as security and intimacy (throat and g******s) and track it through Human Design: Moon in Gate 44 (alertness/“coming to meet,” splenic instinct, ancestral pattern-recognition) and Sun in Gate 24 (rationalization, getting out of mental loops into invention and silence). I also ground Beltane as a Gaelic fire festival (bonfires, maypole, flowers, fertility) opposite Samhain/Halloween, and share my course “Your Heart is a Compass,” weaving the Wheel of the Year with G-center gates, Inanna dream symbolism, and practices like coherent breathing.00:00 Scorpio Full Moon Welcome01:24 Mayday Timing Clarified02:15 Beltane Ritual Invite03:25 Finding Your Voice05:49 Wheel Polarity Taurus Scorpio09:19 Gate 44 Meeting Shadows12:47 Gate 24 Mind to Silence15:19 Instinct and Reason Integration20:07 Beltane Origins and Traditions23:31 Heart Compass Course Vision31:51 Why We Need New Maps34:26 Grounding Practices and Closing This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    39 min
  7. Uranian Magic with Christa Hamilton of Practical Astros

    Apr 28

    Uranian Magic with Christa Hamilton of Practical Astros

    Uranus moved into Gemini on April 25th, and I wanted to mark this pivotal moment by talking to someone who knows this energy from the inside out. This is the first episode of a new series I am calling Living the Spiral: Magicians, conversations with practitioners who have not just studied these systems but have been changed by them. There’s a lot more to come, and this Uranian wisdom with the brilliant Christa Hamilton is a wonderful place to start. Christa Hamilton is a lifelong student of esoteric subjects and an active practitioner of divination. Astrology is the central core of her practice, and she weaves in tarot, plant medicine, animal symbolism, and dreaming as she works. She is a graduate of the Nightlight Astrology School, a founding member of the Asteri Sofia Kairos collective, a contributing writer and lecturer for the Astrologer’s Co-Op, and a volunteer for OPA. She focuses primarily on one-on-one client readings and also creates art, writes, makes videos, and collaborates with other practitioners to make astrology genuinely accessible to anyone who wants it. 🌀 Find Christa at practicalastros.com 📖 Follow her Decan Walk on Substack 📱 Follow her on Instagram and YouTube Work with me: If this conversation is landing for you, I have a course coming in May called Your Heart Is a Compass that feels very much in the spirit of what Christa and I are talking about here. It is built around the idea that the heart is a navigation system, and that when you learn to read it you stop needing external permission to know where you are going. This could be especially useful when Uranus is scrambling all the signals! I also offer natal astrology chart readings, Human Design readings, and more through my practice at Hearth and Spiral. 📬 Sign up for early bird to Your Heart Is a Compass, my upcoming course that runs from May 19-June 16. 💫 Book a reading at hearthandspiral.com 🌀 Follow along at @hearthandspiral on Instagram and Living the Spiral on Substack at livingthespiral.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    1h 51m

  8. Apr 17

    Life Finds a Way: The New Moon in Aries

    This week we're sitting inside one of the most concentrated astrological moments in recent memory. There are seven planets in Aries, stacked into three Human Design gates, all with Thunder in their foundation. The new moon on April 17th falls in Gate 3 (Orderi out of Chaos) with Chiron and Eris, seeding directly into the wound around new beginnings. Neptune and Mercury are meeting in Gate 25, the gate of innocence and universal love. Mars and Saturn are exactly conjunct in Gate 17, asking for far-sighted leadership over rigidly defended opinion. I open this episode with a short three-minute coherent breathing practice, then walk through each gate with its I Ching image and Gene Keys shadow, gift, and siddhi. I also revisit the April 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse and why this new moon is a direct continuation of that thread. Your Heart Is a Compass — Early Bird If something in this episode tugged at you, this course I'm offering starting on May 19th the longer work of it. My five-week live course starts in May and is built around the eight G Center gates, the Pagan Wheel of the Year, the descent of Inanna, and what it actually means to let your heart lead. Early bird pricing is open until May 1st- come play! 👉 Enroll here Find me:Instagram: @hearthandspiral Substack: livingthespiral.substack.com Website: hearthandspiral.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe

    1h 29m
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Living the Spiral with Alison Dale explores the rhythms of time, from lunar cycles to life pivots. It’s part astrology & human design, part seasonal check-in, and an invitation to move with change rather than fight it. www.livingthespiral.com

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  • Creator
    Alison Dale
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    106
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Alison Dale
  • Show Website
    Living the Spiral

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